392 APPENDIX I. claim to Pundarikas flial duty in favour of Sukanasa. In the morniug, the parents of Kadambari and Mahasveta came and the hermitage was deserted at their suggestion in order that the marriage of Kadambari and Chandrapida might he celebrated with due pomp. One day Kadambar enquired as to the fate of Patralekha. She learnt that she was Rbhin, who had followed her lord when he first descended from heaven but had been forbidden to accom pany him in his birth as Shdraka. When Chandrapda's happy marriage with Kadambar was accomplished, he set out for Ujjayir. He placed Pundarika on the throne and attending upon his parents who had left all to follow him, he dwelt with Kadambari, at one time in Ujjayinf, at anothar time on Hemakhta, and again in the world of the moon. From that time forward, the Moon and Kadambara, Kadamhari and Mahas'veta, Mahasveta and Pundarika, Punda rika and the moor were never separated and lived happily together in supreme hliss.
